The Best Steve Jobs Tributes From the Web and Beyond [PHOTOS, VIDEO]

In the hours following the announcement that Apple co-founder Steve Jobs had passed away, numerous tributes began pouring in both on and off the web.

Time Magazine literally stopped the presses for the first time in at least 30 years to devote its cover and entire 21-page features section to Jobs. Bloomberg Businessweek scrapped a planned cover of GOP presidential candidate Rick Perry to feature the Apple visionary instead.

Meanwhile, on YouTube alone, more than 3,000 videos with Jobs’ name in the title have been uploaded in the past 24 hours, many of them somber tributes to the life-changing technology Jobs helped create.

Popular online comic strip xkcd also did a tribute of its own featuring the iconic “spinning beachball of death,” familiar to many Mac users, acting as an eternal flame of sorts. The alt text for the comic reads, “There’s always the hope that if you sit and watch for long enough, the beachball will vanish and the thing it interrupted will return.”

Designer Jonathan Mak created a poignant twist on the Apple logo that has shown up just about everywhere today.

Several tech luminaries posted statements in reaction to Jobs’ death as well.

Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg released a statement– on his Facebook page, of course — saying,

“Steve, thank you for being a mentor and a friend. Thanks for showing that what you build can change the world. I will miss you.”

Those are just the highlights of what we’ve seen. Many more tributes exist, and are all a testament to the impact Steve Jobs had on technology, the world and our daily lives. Share your favorite Steve Jobs tributes in the comments.